Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.
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By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
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Re Robert Montgomerys Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomerys writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
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Lars Porsena of Clusium By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more.
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The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
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